The Explorer — S.J. MacDonald

Welcome to Kluskey's spacer hangout. Here, spacers swap yarns of ghost ships, space monsters, the weird and wonderful and the downright daft.Exploration Corps officer Amil Talen has just returned from a two year expedition far beyond the borders of known space. In this short story he tells an admiring audience how it felt to stand on an alien world, discovering and naming new life forms. But just what is it that's lurking deep in the dark cave?